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` :To-ell whom it may concern:

`UNIT1E1D STATES PATENT FFICEO THOMAS "MfPnLHAM, on NnwfroRK, N. Y.`

Specification formingl part of Letters Patent No. 95,262, dated September 2B, 1869.

Beit known that I, THOMAS M. PELHAM, `of the city, county, and State of New York,

i 1 have invented a new `and Improved Hodi Elevator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionV thereof, which will enable others skilled in y 2 the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hed-elevating platforms, such as are us'edby builders for elevating and returning the hods Acontaining bricks, mortar, and other substances, and has for its object to provide an arrangement whereby the persons who take l the lod from the platform, after being elevated, may do so without requiring to step on the platform in shouldering the hod, as

\ @they must now do, as the elevators are at present constructed, by which serious accif dents occur by thefalling ofthe platform,

owing to the slipping of the hoisting-gear,

` i breaking of the ropes, and other causes.

The invention also has for itsv object to i provide an arrangement whereby a greater number of hods may be carried up in the same space, or on platforms of equal size to others now in use.

Figure l represents a sectional elevation of `my :improved platform, and Fig. 2 represents i a side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A are the "ertical side rails, provided "with slides for the guide rails, (not shown,) also with a bottom, B, an elevated bottom or platform, B', and suitable cross-rails, D, D',

and E, to the latter of which the hoistingrope is attached.

rlhe rails D D' are intended to support the l hods at the bottom of the angular parts in frontof theshanks or notches F, while the lower jends of the sha1-iks stand in sockets on the bottoms B or B', so that the tops lean against the rails, so as to carry the center of gravity so far beyond the foot-rests `of the Shanks` as to insure the prevention ot' i their falling away from the rest-bars D D', also to carrythe hods inward so that the ontwardly-projecting ends will be within the line ot' the sides of the base of the platform.

The top and front sides of the bars D D' are inclined to suit the angles of the shanks and hods at theirjunction when thus leaning inward, and the recesses F are continueddoWn the front sides of the said bars to receive the Shanks.

The red lines G G', Fig. 1, represent the lines'of the floor on each side of the platform, where the carriers will stand when removing the hods H, which they do by rst swinging them away from the bars D, as represented in red at H', so that they will be easily and convenient-ly received on the shoulder while standing on the door, and withoutthe necessity of placing one foot on the platform, as

must be'done with those now in use, which are so constructed that the hods are suspended wholly by the top, in a way that prevents their swinging away from the platform. A

.temporary platform, G', may be placed on the door, 011 the side of the elevated hods, so that the carriers may take the hods from that side as Vreadily as from the other.

For econoinizing space, the bar for the hods applied at one side'is elevated above the other, and, consequently, the door B' of that side, for the support of the shanks, so that the bowl of every alternate hod may stand above the space between the two below for the Shanks of the upper tiers.` In this way more hods may be carried ou a platform ot' a given size than in any other arrangement now in use. Y

The ioor B B' of the platform is provided with ribs, I, in front ofthe ends of the shan ks, which may have notches, L, made in them, to

`prevent lateral movement of the shanks at the bottom. A

I propose to line the notches F in the bars with metal suitably formed, and adapted for the prevention of wear to the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I- claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is K 1. A hod-elevating platform, arranged to support 'the hods by the Shanks` at the edges on the bottom, or door, and by leaning the under tside of the top and the upper part of the Shanks against; notched bars D or D', sub- The above specification of my invention stantially as specified. signed by me this 11th day of August, 1869.

2. The arrangexnemt of the bars D D and the holding devices for the lower ends of the THOS. M. PELHAM.

Shanks of the opposite sides in the order described; that is to say, the bowls o f the row Witnesses:

on one side above those of the other, with the GEO. W. MABEE, Shanks passing between the lower ones, sub- ALEX. F. ROBERTS. stanially as specified. 

